[Noisebridge-discuss] Re: Noisebridge-discuss Digest, Vol 17, Issue 46

Wed Mar 11 09:32:04 UTC 2009

Sign is already made, just need to pick it up tomorrow. You will all  
soon experience a life sized Keanu Reeves bust telling you to be  
excellent to each other when you walk in.

And you will obey.

-Ani

On Mar 11, 2009, at 12:11 AM, Tracy Jacobs <kinetical at comcast.net>  
wrote:

> Mitch,
>
> I will make the sign!
>
> I was wondering about computer programs at Noisebridge.  Are there  
> some good graphics and maybe video programs available on shared  
> computers?  Sorry if that's a dumb question, I live in Oakland and  
> I've only been there once:)
>
> Tracy
> On Mar 10, 2009, at 10:37 PM, noisebridge-discuss-request at lists.noisebridge.net 
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>>  1. "Stuff" for Noisebridge (Bill Nye)
>>  2. Re: Wednesday: sensory substitution hangout (Mikolaj Habryn)
>>  3. Re: Be Excellent sign? (Asheesh Laroia)
>>  4. Re: ML Wednesday: code up a neuron! (Christoph Maier)
>>  5. Re: Drink Restock! (steve camuti)
>>  6. Re: Drink Restock! (Christie Dudley)
>>  7. RE: Be Excellent sign? (Mitch Altman)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:27:15 -0700
>> From: Bill Nye <nye2 at email.com>
>> Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] "Stuff" for Noisebridge
>> To: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
>> Message-ID: <49B71373.2070000 at email.com>
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>> Hello, due to the location of the dorkbot Wednesday,
>> I have to drive to SF.  So I thought I would
>> bring over some "stuff" for Noisebridge:
>>  - large capacitors
>>  - small electronics
>>  - a strip of R45 jacks
>>  - 2 old TV yoke coils
>>  - 4 basic barstools
>>
>> I know the "stuff wanted" page only mentions metal
>> folding chairs, but these stools have a very small
>> footprint good for crowds.  Also, when there is not
>> enough table space, people could sit on these behind
>> the normal chairs, to observe others working.
>>
>> Finally, I have this Audio Choice 100W Portable PA
>> system that I actually bought for $199 from
>> musiciansfriend.com.  It has 2 12x24 rugged speakers
>> and the mixer/amp unit. Hardly ever used (I say very
>> sadly). Handles 1/4" and XLR inputs.  Possibly people
>> could borrow it for 1 or 2-day external events, if
>> we had a sign-out sheet.
>>
>> I offer the "warranty" that if anything is not
>> wanted, I will take it back (or get rid of it). :-)
>>  -Bill
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:34:27 -0700
>> From: Mikolaj Habryn <dichro at rcpt.to>
>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Wednesday: sensory substitution
>>    hangout
>> To: Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com>
>> Cc: "noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net"
>>    <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
>> Message-ID:
>>    <cd7d9f3b0903101834n682057a9ybe3bfeacda136b19 at mail.gmail.com>
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>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Rachel McConnell  
>> <rachel at xtreme.com> wrote:
>>> Mikolaj Habryn wrote:
>>>> I have a small bag of http://www.solarbotics.com/products/vpm2/ -  
>>>> one
>>>> of the open questions is just how large a motor you're going to  
>>>> need
>>>> to be able to feel it through any given set of clothing. Empirical
>>>> testing, ahoy.
>>>
>>> The vibration of a pager motor is felt quite clearly through  
>>> layers of
>>> pillow fluff.  On the head, through (say) a knit hat, no problem  
>>> at all.
>>
>> That's true, but I guess I had in mind what levels of modulation you
>> could distinguish. Let's say, for example, that you wanted to signal
>> more than just direction. If, instead of just vibrating north, you're
>> signalling a vector to another person (logical extrapolation of all
>> these social location maps+GPS services, right?), you might want to
>> also signal distance and how long it has been since they moved.
>>
>> One of those you can signal with intensity of vibration, but the  
>> other
>> one you'd have to get more creative (not that it's entirely clear  
>> that
>> you have a large range of intensities available; for a given size of
>> motor on the other side of a given piece of clothing, you might only
>> be able to feel it vibrate at >80% power, for example).
>>
>> More creative might mean signaling with multiple motors, or trying to
>> pulse the motor in a detectable way, or something else similar, and
>> some of these might work better with some motors than others. And,
>> best of all, brains might do better at integrating some types of
>> signal than others. Maybe it's easy to train a different perception  
>> of
>> pulsed vs continuous then it is to train for a combination of two
>> motors vs one. I think it's going to be just fascinating trying to
>> find out :)
>>
>> m.
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:37:57 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: Asheesh Laroia <noisebridge at asheesh.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Be Excellent sign?
>> To: Ani Niow <avniow at gmail.com>
>> Cc: NoiseBridge Discuss <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
>> Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0903101837110.4903 at vellum.laroia.net>
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>> On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Ani Niow wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/vniow/3344371675/
>>> Dude.
>>
>> (what does mine say?)
>>
>> Sweet!
>>
>> (what does mine say?)
>>
>> Dude!
>>
>> (what does mine say?)
>>
>> -- Asheesh.
>>
>> -- 
>> Are you sure the back door is locked?
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
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>> Message: 4
>> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:11:03 -0700
>> From: Christoph Maier <cm.hardware.software.elsewhere at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] ML Wednesday: code up a neuron!
>> To: NoiseBridge Discuss <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
>> Message-ID: <1236744663.7504.36.camel at DrEvil>
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>> On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 15:05 -0700, Josh Myer wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 02:56:41PM -0700, Mikolaj Habryn wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think most languages will look similar if written in accessible
>>>> style. Real Python would say:
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's why I wrote the ruby in the most naive form possible.  It's
>>> like pseudocode with a slightly different syntax.
>>>
>>>> import operator
>>>>
>>>> def dot_product(a, b):
>>>> return sum(map(operator.mul, a, b))
>>>>
>>>
>>> I hate to yield the elegance plaque to python, but, well, it looks
>>> like I must.  That's just nice, clean functional code.
>>>
>>> The most functional version in ruby I could pull together:
>>>
>>> def dot_product(a, b)
>>> a.zip(b).inject(0.0) { |s, x| s+x[0]*x[1] }
>>> end
>>>
>>>> Which just goes to show that most high-level languages look the  
>>>> same
>>>> when written in real style too ;)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Sadly, ruby looks less like real languages than python does here.
>>> Drat.  It does smell kind of like a handicapped lisp, at least?
>>
>> Speaking of handicapped Lisp, what is a poor Mathematica addict  
>> supposed
>> to do?
>> The Dot[] function looks like this:
>>
>> .
>>
>> (as in
>> DuNervst = Function[{gewichte,stimuli},Tanh[gewichte.stimuli]]
>> )
>>
>> Ok, this is a commercial program and kind of off topic here.
>> Mea maxima
>> [ http://maxima.sourceforge.net/docs/manual/en/maxima_25.html#SEC85 ]
>> culpa.
>>
>> Hope I can make it from San Diego in time for tomorrow night!
>>
>> Christoph
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
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>> Message: 5
>> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:41:02 -0700
>> From: steve camuti <mrcamuti at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Drink Restock!
>> To: NoiseBridge Discuss <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
>> Message-ID:
>>    <5a21f3510903102141l2ffd3b09wf7b54d5970fbdbe1 at mail.gmail.com>
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>> I have been putting my monies in the donation box near the door.  
>> According
>> to Mitch, the treasurer, after our last meeting it sounded like  
>> they are
>> inter-related anyway...
>> -Steve
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:20 AM, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:46:42AM -0800, Shannon Clark wrote:
>>>> I suspect an issue is that the payment box is seperated from the
>>>> kitchen area so dropping money into it takes a second act & it is  
>>>> easy
>>>> to forget to do so.
>>>
>>> No it's not -- the drinks fridge has explicit instructions on it  
>>> to the
>>> cash can, which is in the cupboard.
>>>
>>>> 2. Put a drinks payment box in the kitchen and very clearly  
>>>> market and
>>>> visible. Ideally placed such that it doesn't get covered up (not  
>>>> sure
>>>> where this would work as the kitchen is getting cluttered)
>>>
>>> It's fairly visible, I think...
>>>
>>> -andy
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>> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:01:58 -0700
>> From: Christie Dudley <longobord at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Drink Restock!
>> To: steve camuti <mrcamuti at gmail.com>
>> Cc: NoiseBridge Discuss <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
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>> They eventually wind up in the same place, but they take a  
>> different route
>> to get there.  Everything should be really clear with the new signs  
>> that
>> have been posted.
>>
>> Christie
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:41 PM, steve camuti <mrcamuti at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have been putting my monies in the donation box near the door.  
>>> According
>>> to Mitch, the treasurer, after our last meeting it sounded like  
>>> they are
>>> inter-related anyway...
>>> -Steve
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:20 AM, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org>  
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:46:42AM -0800, Shannon Clark wrote:
>>>>> I suspect an issue is that the payment box is seperated from the
>>>>> kitchen area so dropping money into it takes a second act & it  
>>>>> is easy
>>>>> to forget to do so.
>>>>
>>>> No it's not -- the drinks fridge has explicit instructions on it  
>>>> to the
>>>> cash can, which is in the cupboard.
>>>>
>>>>> 2. Put a drinks payment box in the kitchen and very clearly  
>>>>> market and
>>>>> visible. Ideally placed such that it doesn't get covered up (not  
>>>>> sure
>>>>> where this would work as the kitchen is getting cluttered)
>>>>
>>>> It's fairly visible, I think...
>>>>
>>>> -andy
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>> -- =
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>> -- =
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>> Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
>> ~ Mohandas K. (Mahatma) Gandhi
>>
>> If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people  
>> what
>> they do not want to hear.
>> ~ George Orwell
>>
>> Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.
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>> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:55:56 -0700
>> From: Mitch Altman <maltman23 at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: RE: [Noisebridge-discuss] Be Excellent sign?
>> To: Ani Niow <avniow at gmail.com>, Shannon Lee <shannon at scatter.com>
>> Cc: NoiseBridge Discuss <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
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>>
>> :)  !!Yay!!
>>
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>> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:43:12 -0700
>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Be Excellent sign?
>> From: avniow at gmail.com
>> To: shannon at scatter.com
>> CC: maltman23 at hotmail.com; noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
>>
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/vniow/3344371675/
>>
>>
>> Dude.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -Ani
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Shannon Lee <shannon at scatter.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>> What we need is a life-sized cardboard cutout of Keanu Reeves with  
>> a speech=
>> -balloon of it coming out of his mouth.
>>
>> --S
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Mitch Altman  
>> <maltman23 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Background:
>> =
>>
>> There is a fairly new international organization called  
>> Hackerspaces.org th=
>> at exists to promote starting and continuation of hacker spaces  
>> around the =
>> world.  Every month they have a conference call where anyone can  
>> join in.  =
>> This month's call was yesterday, and I gave an update on Noisebridge.
>> =
>>
>> =
>>
>> When I mentioned our one rule:  Be excellent to one another,  
>> someone on the=
>> call asked if we had a sign that sez this at our space.  Anyone  
>> think this=
>> is a cool idea and want to make a cool sign?  Thoughts?
>> =
>>
>> =
>>
>> Mitch.
>> =
>>
>>
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>> -- =
>>
>> Shannon Lee
>>              (503) 539-3700        =
>>
>>
>> "Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science."
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